I work in a field that saw huge downturn in the late 90s/ early 00s, so most people looking for positions or going into training programs changed careers or went back to school. Now we have a large number of older employees (>55) and a smaller amount of younger employees (<35). To make up for the huge gap in workers, admin has incentivized older workers to stick around with higher pay and preferred scheduling, and younger employees are getting stiffed. For example, instead of promoting another employee when a person retired, they asked the retired person to come back and work per diem for increased pay. We have 2 people that they've done this with. Plus, since the pay is pretty nice for the field, you have people retiring later and later. I get why management is doing this, saving money and all that, but it really disappoints me to see my older coworkers taking advantage of the stagnating industry to "help the department," or "keep busy during retirement."
Anyone else see this happening? I know things are more expensive and not everyone around retirement age can retire, but I'm specifically talking about the employees who can retire but choose not to.